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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
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People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
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